Online Newspaper Archives

The U.S. Government is working on a project that would make available online newspapers from 1836 to 1922. Currently, past newspapers can only be viewed on microfilm at local libraries or the Library of Congress. This website would make all this material available to anyone, for the purpose of educating America of its own history, in the effort to make America an even greater democracy. Newspapers published in 1923 or after, however, are still protected under copyright laws, and cannot be put into the system. The website is expected to have 30 million digitized pages by 2006.